What tea can clear the lungs, reduce phlegm and relieve cough?

Usually, colds or bronchitis and other diseases often cause symptoms of coughing and phlegm. In addition to regular treatment, you can also drink some tea, which has a good effect of moistening the lungs and relieving coughs. Many teas have this effect. For example, mulberry, apricot and ginseng tea has a good therapeutic and health-care effect for dry coughs without phlegm or little phlegm with adhesion. Depending on the different symptoms, you will drink some tea with regulating effects.

Lung moistening and cough relieving tea

1. Mulberry, apricot and ginseng tea

Preparation method: 10 grams of mulberry leaves, 5 grams of almonds, 5 grams of Adenophora ginseng, 3 grams of elephant shell, 15 grams of pear peel, and 3 grams of rock sugar. Add water to the ingredients and boil them. Drink as tea frequently.

Efficacy: Suitable for those with dry cough without phlegm, or with little phlegm that sticks into threads and is difficult to cough out, due to wind-dryness damaging the lungs.

2. Sugarcane Coltsfoot Tea

Preparation method: 150cc pure sugarcane juice, 0.5g lily, 0.3g coltsfoot. Wash lilies and coltsfoot flowers, add 300cc of water, boil for 15 minutes, pour in sugarcane juice, stir evenly and drink it instead of tea.

Efficacy: Lily and coltsfoot flower moisten the lungs and nourish yin, and are good cough suppressants; sugarcane juice clears away heat and promotes salivation. The combination of the three has the effect of enhancing immunity for long-term cough caused by lung yin deficiency.

3. Kumquat tea

Preparation method: 500 grams of kumquats and 100 grams of salt. Slightly sun-dry the kumquats (until the skin is soft), salt them and store them in a bottle for 3 to 6 months. Take 3 to 5 salted kumquats each time, wash off the salt on the surface, mash them, add appropriate amount of white sugar, and brew them with boiling water.

Efficacy: It can cure loss of appetite, chronic cough, whooping cough in children, and can also prevent and treat colds.

4. Ophiopogon japonicus, Adenophora ginseng and almond tea

Preparation method: 15g Ophiopogon japonicus, 10g Adenophora chinensis, 9g Apricot kernel, 9g Mulberry leaf, 20g Lily bulb, 1 pear. First soak the other ingredients except the pear in cold water for half an hour, and then stew them together with the pear.

Efficacy: Ophiopogon japonicus nourishes yin and moistens the lungs, benefits the stomach and produces fluid, clears the heart and relieves restlessness; Adenophora ginseng nourishes yin and clears the lungs, benefits the stomach and produces fluid; Apricot kernel moistens dryness and relieves cough; Mulberry leaf clears lung heat, cools and moistens lung dryness; Lily clears the heart and calms the mind, nourishes yin and moistens the lungs and relieves cough; Snow pear clears heat and moistens dryness, relieves cough and resolves phlegm. This tea nourishes yin and clears dryness, moistens the lungs and relieves cough, clears the heart and calms the mind. It is suitable for people with dry mouth and nose, dry cough without phlegm or little and sticky phlegm, and restlessness and insomnia.

5. Rose and pear tea

Preparation method: 3 roses, 2 pears, and 10 grams of rock sugar. Wash the pears and cut into small pieces; tear the rose petals into petals and wash them; beat the rock sugar into crumbs. Put rose flowers, pear pieces and rock sugar crumbs into a pot, add 300 ml of water, bring to a boil over high heat, and cook for 5 minutes.

Efficacy: Nourishes the lungs and relieves cough, softens the liver and invigorates the spleen. Suitable for people with dry cough and poor appetite.

6. Scrophularia and Ophiopogon japonicus Lung Moisturizing Tea

Preparation method: 60 grams each of Scrophularia ningpoensis and Ophiopogon japonicus, 24 grams of Prunus mume, 30 grams of Platycodon grandiflorum, and 15 grams of Licorice. After the above medicines are dried, grind them together, mix them evenly, and pack them into bags of 18 grams each. Take 1 bag twice a day, brew with boiled water and drink as tea.

Efficacy: Scrophularia and Ophiopogon nourish yin and moisten the lungs, Platycodon and Licorice resolve phlegm and relieve cough, and Black Plum can nourish the lungs and produce fluid. This tea has the effects of nourishing yin and nourishing the lungs, clearing the throat and relieving cough. It is mainly used to treat chronic cough and deficiency of lung yin. Do not use if you have no phlegm, dry mouth, red tongue, or cough caused by wind and cold.